Very interesting, I've not played video games on a console for some time. Though your post makes a compelling argument to do so. My thoughts are mostly philosophical around the story and it's components.

Suppose the time is the 31st century, probably humans had built computers and machinery to do so much for them, people forgot how to do all the technological magic. Only a hundred years away from that date ourselves if guess. Since there are still machines and they appear to have various forms. I'll hypothesize they likely have an origin machine and creator machine which still exists. Though I'd not likely to let you see it since it's probably got the machines networked, though this is not Terminator, it appears to have similar undertones. Post technological world did not manage to maintain it's knowledge and feel from power. Something that has happened numerous times in our history so far.

Let's try to maintain our knowledge and coordination so future life need not live in these harsh conditions.

I nearly forgot to mention simulation theory, this game appears amazingly realistic, at what point do the characters in game gain enough code to perceive their world such that they are considered Conscious? What could they do to examine their world to determine if it is in fact coded or "real"?